Blurry LCD monitor image

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07-08-2006, 02:10 AM
d_k

Blurry LCD monitor image

I received a free Dell 1906FP 19" lcd flatpanel monitor from work, I was excited to test the thing out after years on a 19" CRT but I'm stuck on some issues. Mainly huge display problems, no matter what resolution/hz ( including the reccomended 1280x1024 60hz), The screen just is painful to look at. It seems really flickery ( almost like a CRT running on 60hz), its blurry, and there is alot of ghosting.

Am I doing something wrong, is this typical of LCD's, any time or help or advice is reccomended ?
07-08-2006, 03:24 AM
LordVampyre

have you turned on clear type?? try that also, did you install the drivers for the lcd and if your last monitor had drivers did you remove those??
07-09-2006, 02:38 AM
Dead Shark

Wow. Something is wrong. I just switched to a LCD myself after years of relatively high quality crt's- using the Viewsonic vp930b. And if anything the screen is MUCH sharper than any CRT i've worked on.

Are you using the DVI input? If not the VGA inputs can make things very blurry and icky.
07-09-2006, 04:03 AM
PriMaTe

have you tried playing with the sharpness settings on the monitor? I remember that with my first lcd you had to mess with the sharpness setting to get a crisp picture. try it
07-09-2006, 04:41 AM
Dead Shark

you should not have to mess with sharpness in the native resolution. switch to that resolution.
07-09-2006, 08:17 PM
Trav2003

Yeah usually unsharp images on LCDs are related to a couple things:

1) Using VGA input/bad VGA cable
2) Running at non-native resolutions
3) bad display - I've read a few reviews stating their Dell LCD's were fuzzy and it was a manufacturing defect.

If #1 and #2 don't fix it - then might be time to return it for another unit.
07-10-2006, 04:33 PM
PriMaTe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dead Shark

you should not have to mess with sharpness in the native resolution. switch to that resolution.

I thought that too, maybe it was just the particular monitor I bought, but out of the box even when it was at the native res things in windows didn't look sharp, it looked like the monitor wasn't being run at the native res. But when I changed the sharpness setting everything was normal. I was surprised.
07-10-2006, 06:30 PM
Dead Shark

huh. did oyu verify it was running at native resolution in the OCD?
07-11-2006, 01:46 PM
d_k

I actually got the display to look pretty damn good while fiddling with the menu, problem was mainly with the analog connection I was using. In any refesh rate beside 60hz even the auto adjust couldnt fix the picture ( albeit it still looked really good). I got the DVI connection cable and everything is perfect now, its native resolution is 1280x1024x60hz but I'm running it at 1024x768x75hz under the DVI and its crystal clear and no signs of blurriness or ghosting! :)